WWTO: 2012 Photo Parade – Saturday
WIzard World Toronto 2012 Photo Parade - Saturday
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Spock on Big Bang Theory
Play with it Sheldon! Toy collectors are a demanding lot; they collect the package as much as the toy and they demand perfection in both. Opening up a toy to play with is simply never considered. How can it be…
Niagara Falls Comic Con
The comic book convention season is already in full swing (is it ever not in full swing anymore?) and while there are the must visit staples like San Diego’s Comic-Con International, Toronto’s Fan Expo, Chicago’s C2E2 and Wizard World and…
Diamond Posts February Stats
Diamond Announces Top Products For February 2012 DC Entertainment had February’s top selling comic book with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s Justice League #6 and, for the second month in a row, the publisher swept the month’s top ten best-selling…
TCC 2012: Sunday Photo Parade
For the entire Toronto ComiCon 2012 photo set on Flickr, click here. For Saturday’s photos, click here. All photos courtesy of Stanley Jon.
TCC 2012: Saturday Photo Parade
For photo set in Flickr, click here. All photos courtesy of Stanley Jon.
Marvel giving free digital code with all $3.99 comics
Wow, this announcement just came in my inbox and floored me. A real game changer: Marvel is including a digital code in all $3.99 comics starting this June. Let that sink in for a minute: every print comic, at least…
The Dragon March Mini-Con 2012
Sunday March 4th I had the pleasure of attending The Dragon March Mini-Con in Guelph Ontario. For the occasion The Dragon Comics owner Jennifer Haines brought into her store Francis Manapul, Agnes Garbowska, Marcus To, Marco Rudy, Andy Belanger, Becky…
Happy 75th Prince Valiant
Today marks seventy-five years since the first Prince Valiant strip was published. Wow. Fantagraphics notes the anniversary on their blog and makes this first strip available. If you haven’t experienced the new reprints from Fantagraphics get out there and pick…
January Comic Book Sales Figures
Diamond Comic Distributor sales figures for the month of January have been released and the data shows Marvel Comics winning the Retail Dollar race by the narrowest of margins with a 35.17% share over arch rival DC Comics’ 33.55% share.…
C.B. Daily Jan 23rd
TCAF 2012 guests annouced, Miracleman and Marvel, DC fighting hunger, The Inifinite finite at issue four, and more.
C.B. Daily Jan 19th
A new Popeye comic, CBLDF advisory, a look at Parker, new X-O Manowar, DC April '12 solicits, DC logo announcement and more!
Diamond Hires Chris Powell
Diamond Comic Distributors, the sole distributor of comic books to the specialty comic market, last week hired Chris Powell as Executive Director of Business Development for the comic book specialty market. Chris Powell comes to Diamond from Lone Star Comics…
C.B. Daily Jan 17th
Top Canadian sellers, a Spirit TV movie, automated book scanning, and a new webcomics portal from Stephanie Buscema and J. Bone.
C.B. Daily Jan 13th
C.B. Daily Jan 13th: New DC titles, Conan interview, The Shadow and more.
Comic Sales Data for 2011
So the 2011 yearly totals are in and I thought I’d pass along some data. Marvel was both the unit share winner for the year and the dollar value winner. I’ve included the top 10 publishers below. Publisher Fantagraphics finished…
C.B. Daily Jan 12th
Millar and Quitely's new book, Prince Valiant colour comparisons, free comics to veterans, and more.
C.B. Daily Jan 11th
Simonson on Avengers, Cooke does The Shade, Toronto Comicon details, Faith Erin Hicks profiled, Frazetta comedy movie posters and more.
C.B. Daily Jan 10th
Points of interest from the comics interweb; I sort the chaff so you get the wheat. I'm sticking with Chaff Smasher' perhaps someone can create an image for me.
Marvel is Tops!
Marvel Comics climbed its way back to the top of the comic book heap. The House of Ideas led the market in December, narrowly edging DC Entertainment in both the Retail Dollar (34.43% for Marvel vs. 33.74% for DC) and…